Apartheid, Land, property theft & destruction / Ethnic cleansing
Sarta villagers resist Brokhen settlers destruction of their land
The aim behind the construction of the new road near the Jewish Colony of “Brokheen” and expanding it is to connect the settlement with a street called “Trans-Samaria”, which connects the “Tel Aviv” to the Jordan Valley. The new Street of “Trans-Samaria” will result in the confiscation of about 1000 dunams of village’s lands, an area mostly planted with olive trees which constitutes the main source of income for the farmers there.link to stopthewall.org

Justice for Palestine: advancing the struggle
Free public event at SOAS, University of London, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (Room G2) Thursday 10 October 2013, 7pm
War on Want, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine and SOAS Palestine Society welcome you to a panel discussion on the campaigns and legal advocacy initiatives that inspire the global solidarity movement with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality.link to waronwant.org

Gazans say Egypt is now turning the screw
The shift of power in Egypt over the past few months has led not just to border closures for those wanting to cross into the country from Gaza, but also to a sharp reduction in the transport of basic goods, as well as fishing rights, further isolating residents of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).link to irinnews.org

Palestinian refugees
UNRWA: At Least 5,000 Drop-outs in 2010/11 School Year
Reflecting its commitment to education as a vital investment in the human development of Palestine refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has published the results of a comprehensive study on students who drop out of school and the reasons for which they do so.link to www.unrwa.org

US cowardice will let Israel’s isolated right off the hook – By Robert Fisk
For there was President Obama at Monday’s meeting, praising Mr Netanyahu for his support for a two-state solution. And what did President Obama actually say? That there was “a limited amount of time to achieve that goal”. So why was there only a “limited amount of time”? Not a single scribe asked the poor fellow.
There is, of course, only a “limited amount of time” – in my view, no time at all – to achieve this illusory goal because the Netanyahu government is thieving, against all international law, yet more Palestinian Arab land for Jews and Jews only, at a faster rate than ever, to prevent just such a Palestinian state ever existing.link to www.independent.co.uk

Israel’s Politics of Deflection: Theory and Practice – by Richard Falk
The purpose of my analysis is to encourage Palestinians in all settings to do their best to keep the focus on substance and respective rights. Perhaps, it is time for all of us to learn from the brave Palestinian hunger strikers whose nonviolent defiance of Israeli detention abuse operated with laser like intensity to call attention to prison and administrative injustice. Unfortunately, the media of the world was silentlink to palestinechronicle.com

Stop Congress From Rewarding Israeli Discrimination
Would I have been pulled aside for questioning in the first place if I were not Arab-American? Everyone I have spoken to—including human rights lawyers and researchers—finds my deportation story outrageous. But what is more outrageous is that Congress is considering codifying into law this very kind of Israeli discrimination against American citizens.link to thenation.com

A Wall for a Wall: Mirroring Racism
Here’s a piece of disgusting news, so disgusting in fact that it beggars belief. Israel and its army of occupation are not just brutal, inhuman and utterly devoid of morality. Israeli army sprays sewage on the streets of the Palestinian town of Abu Dis.link to dissidentvoice.org
Rethinking the two-state solution
Notwithstanding the current negotiations initiated by Secretary of State John F. Kerry, if J Street does not want to find itself promoting an irrelevant political program, it will need to begin thinking about an alternative that guarantees both democracy and a certain strain of Zionism, but also advocates a single state in which Jews and Palestinians live together as equals.link to latimes.com

How Turkey Blew Its Chance to Lead the Middle East
Two years later, none of these good things has come to pass for Turkey, and it is very short of friends in the Middle East. It has managed simultaneously to make enemies of the four Shia powers to its south and east: Iran, Iraq, Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon – as well as the Sunni monarchies of the Gulf with the exception of Qatar.link to counterpunch.org

About Kate

American; political science major, M.A.; former ISM volunteer in the West Bank

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